Species: Limnodromus scolopaceus

Long-billed Dowitcher

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Salish Sea-reliant birds

Terrestrial vertebrates: birds

Species of concern in the Salish Sea

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae

Genus

Limnodromus

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Source:
ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.100840

Classification

Other Global Common Names

Costurero Pico Largo, Becasina Boreal - bécassin à long bec

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Shorebirds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae - Limnodromus - See Avise and Zink (1988) for information on genetic divergence between L. SCOLOPACEUS and L. GRISEUS.

Ecology and Life History

Migration

false - false - true - Migrates primarily through western North America west of Rockies, less frequently (primarily in fall) east of Rockies (AOU 1983). Migrates northward to breeding areas, arriving late May-early June in northern Alaska. Southward migration usually begins in late July or early August, greatest numbers in August-September; juveniles begin migration after mid-August, rare before mid-September (Hayman et al. 1986). Rare but regular migrant in Hawaii.

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Forages shallow fresh water and mud bars, probing into mud with bill. Feeds on insects and their larvae, mollusks, crustaceans, marine worms, spiders, and seeds of aquatic plants (bulrushes, pondweeds, sedges, etc.).

Reproduction Comments

Breeding begins in late May or early June (Harrison 1978); early nestings in northern Alaska in the first half of June. Clutch size is 4. At first both sexes take turns incubating the eggs; later only the male is involved. Incubation appears to last for 20 days. Precocial young are tended by male.

Ecology Comments

Little information on home range; in Siberia, nesting pairs remained in an area about 100-300 meters in diameter (Johnsgard 1981).

Length

Weight

109

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-11-26

Global Status Last Changed

1996-11-26

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

GH - 200,000 to >2,500,000 square km (about 80,000 to >1,000,000 square miles) - GH - BREEDS: northeastern Siberia, northwestern and northern Alaska, northern Yukon, and northwestern Mackenzie, east to Franklin Bay, Northwest Territories. WINTERS: from central California, southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, central Texas, Gulf Coast, and southern Florida south to Guatemala, rarely to Costa Rica, casually to Panama; occasionally in Hawaii.

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

200,000 to >2,500,000 square km (about 80,000 to >1,000,000 square miles)

ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.100840